Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Brescia, Italy

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Number of sights 21 sights
Distance 3.9 km
Ascend 66 m
Descend 58 m

Experience Brescia in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in BresciaIndividual Sights in Brescia

Sight 1: Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano

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Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e DamianoThis Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. This image is not public domain. Please respect the copyright protection. It may only be used according to the rules mentioned here. This specifically excludes use in social media, if applicable terms of the licenses listed here not appropriate. Please do not upload an updated image here without consultation with the Author. The author would like to make corrections only at his own source. This ensures that the changes are preserved.Please if you think that any changes should be required, please inform the author.Otherwise you can upload a new image with a new name. Please use one of the templates derivative or extract. / CC BY-SA 3.0

Santi Cosma e Damiano is a church in central Brescia, a region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santi Cosma e Damiano, Brescia (EN)

333 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace

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Saint Mary of the Peace Church is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Pace in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy. The church belongs to the Oratorians.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Pace, Brescia (EN)

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi

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San Francesco is a Romanesque-Gothic style, Roman Catholic church and Franciscan monastery located on Via San Francesco d'Assisi in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Francesco, Brescia (EN)

230 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa dei Santi Nazaro e Celso

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Chiesa dei Santi Nazaro e CelsoThis Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. This image is not public domain. Please respect the copyright protection. It may only be used according to the rules mentioned here. This specifically excludes use in social media, if applicable terms of the licenses listed here not appropriate. Please do not upload an updated image here without consultation with the Author. The author would like to make corrections only at his own source. This ensures that the changes are preserved.Please if you think that any changes should be required, please inform the author.Otherwise you can upload a new image with a new name. Please use one of the templates derivative or extract. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The church of Santi Nazaro e Celso is located on Corso Giacomo Matteotti, at the intersection with via Fratelli Bronzetti, in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. The church contains the Averoldi Polyptych (1522), a masterwork of Titian.

Wikipedia: Santi Nazaro e Celso, Brescia (EN)

159 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli

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The church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli is located on Corso Martiri della Libertà in Brescia.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Brescia (EN)

268 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa di Santa Maria al Mercato del Lino

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Madonna del Lino or Santa Maria del Mercato del Lino is a Roman Catholic church located on the Southwest corner of Piazza Mercato in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: Madonna del Lino, Brescia (EN)

268 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa di Sant'Agata

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Sant'Agata is a 15th-century, Roman Catholic church located on Corsetto Sant'Agata at Piazza della Vittoria in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Agata, Brescia (EN)

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Monumento ai caduti delle Dieci giornate di Brescia.

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Monumento ai caduti delle Dieci giornate di Brescia.This Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send me a message. This image is not public domain. Please respect the copyright protection. It may only be used according to the rules mentioned here. This specifically excludes use in social media, if applicable terms of the licenses listed here not appropriate. Please do not upload an updated image here without consultation with the Author. The author would like to make corrections only at his own source. This ensures that the changes are preserved.Please if you think that any changes should be required, please inform the author.Otherwise you can upload a new image with a new name. Please use one of the templates derivative or extract. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Monument to Bella Italia or Bell'Italia, officially the Monument to the Fallen of the Ten Days of Brescia, is a marble monument located in the northeast branch of Piazza della Loggia in Brescia, Italy.

Wikipedia: Monumento alla Bella Italia (IT)

330 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Concattedrale invernale di Santa Maria Assunta

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The Duomo Vecchio or Old Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Brescia, Italy; the rustic circular Romanesque co-cathedral stands next to the Duomo Nuovo of Brescia. It is officially known as the Winter Co-Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, while the adjacent main cathedral is known as the Summer Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Old Cathedral, Brescia (EN)

198 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Cattedrale estiva di Santa Maria Assunta

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The Duomo nuovo, or more correctly the summer cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, is the main church of Brescia, the mother church of the diocese of the same name and an Italian national monument. It is located in Piazza Paolo VI, also known as Piazza del Duomo, and is part of two cathedrals adjacent to each other, namely the old cathedral. The place of worship was erected between 1604 and 1825 on the site of the early Christian basilica of San Pietro de Dom, dating back to the 5th-6th century. In addition, it is the seat of a parish that is part of the pastoral area of Brescia Centro.

Wikipedia: Duomo nuovo (IT)

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Carità

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Santa Maria della Carità or just known as the Carità, or the church of the Buon Pastore, is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Via dei Musei corner via Rosa in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Carità, Brescia (EN)

132 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Scavi archeologici di palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino

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The archaeological excavations of Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino in Brescia were opened in 1998 in the basement of the palace, after eight years of work that involved the varied stratigraphy that affects the area below the building. The excavations have brought to light testimonies and finds ranging from prehistory to the Middle Ages, confirming the three-thousand-year history of Piazza del Foro and this area of the city of Brescia.

Wikipedia: Scavi archeologici di palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino (IT)

68 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Foro Romano

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The Roman Forum of Brescia was the ancient main square of the city center of Brixia starting from the first century BC and later completed by Vespasian. Much of the original square is now modelled on the Piazza del Foro, while the remains of most of the buildings that overlooked it have been brought to light outside or in the basement of the buildings that currently surround the square. This monumental archaeological complex preserves the major public buildings of the Roman age in northern Italy and for this reason it has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of the serial site "Longobards in Italy: the places of power".

Wikipedia: Foro romano di Brescia (IT)

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: San Marco Evangelista

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San Marco Evangelista is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church located at the end of via Laura Cereto in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Marco Evangelista, Brescia (EN)

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa di San Clemente

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The church of San Clemente is an ancient Roman Catholic church located near the Piazza del Foro, in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Clemente, Brescia (EN)

255 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Memoriale a Niccolò Tartaglia

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Memoriale a Niccolò Tartaglia

Nicolo, known as Tartaglia, was an Italian mathematician, engineer, a surveyor and a bookkeeper from the then Republic of Venice. He published many books, including the first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid, and an acclaimed compilation of mathematics. Tartaglia was the first to apply mathematics to the investigation of the paths of cannonballs, known as ballistics, in his Nova Scientia ; his work was later partially validated and partially superseded by Galileo's studies on falling bodies. He also published a treatise on retrieving sunken ships.

Wikipedia: Nicolo Tartaglia (EN)

31 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Calchera

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The church of Santa Maria in Calchera is a Roman Catholic church in Brescia, Italy, Italy, located in the southwest corner of the square of the same name, along Via Trieste, a short distance from Piazzale Arnaldo. Of very ancient origin, it was radically restored from the sixteenth century onwards, until the eighteenth century.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Calchera (IT)

375 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Chiesa di San Salvatore

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San Salvatore is a former monastery in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, now turned into a museum. The monastic complex is famous for the diversity of its architecture which includes Roman remains and significant pre-Romanesque, Romanesque and Renaissance buildings.

Wikipedia: San Salvatore, Brescia (EN)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Chiesa di San Zeno al Foro

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San Zeno al Foro is a church in center of the city of Brescia, situated in Piazza del Foro on the Via dei Musei, a few yards from the ruins of the Roman Capitoline temple in the city.

Wikipedia: San Zeno al Foro, Brescia (EN)

73 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Tempio Capitolino

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The Capitolium of Brixia or the Temple of the Capitoline Triad in Brescia was the main temple in the center of the Roman town of Brixia (Brescia), in Northern Italy, in the modern region of Lombardy. It is represented at present by fragmentary ruins, but is part of an archeological site, including a Roman theater and museum in central Brescia. It forms part of the Longobards in Italy: Places of Power UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2011.

Wikipedia: Capitolium of Brixia (EN)

100 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Teatro Romano

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The Roman Theatre of Ancient Brixia is a building located in the present-day city of Brescia, near the Capitoline Temple and the Forum Square.

Wikipedia: Teatro romano di Brescia (IT)

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